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POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER (Assocation of Social Anthropologists Mongraphs, No. 2).
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (some general creasing and wear to the dj.)
Book ID: 39921More details Price: $25.00 -
A WALK ACROSS THE SUN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & London: SilverOak, (2012. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, interwoven stories of two young Indian girls who are swept up into the international sex trade and the young American lawyer who becomes involved in trying to rescue them. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 370 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54938More details Price: $25.00 -
A WALK ACROSS THE SUN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York & London: SilverOak, (2012. SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, interwoven stories of two young Indian girls who are swept up into the international sex trade and the young American lawyer who becomes involved in trying to rescue them. SIGNED on the half title page. 370 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54939More details Price: $25.00 -
LAST MAN IN TOWER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this Booker Prize winning author. One man stands in the way of real estate developer Dharmen Shah's luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram's Tower A. As the demolition deadline gets closer, Masterji's neighbors and former friends become enemies, determined to make sure that nothing will block their payday - a story of money and power, luxury and deprivation set in modern India. 382 pp. ISBN: 978-0307594099.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88606More details Price: $21.50 -
LEELA'S BOOK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2011). First edition - The author's first novel (second book). Set in India, this has been described as a 'multi-threaded, raucous epic about family and faith.' 422 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58227More details Price: $15.00 -
MADRAS ON RAINY DAYS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, the story of a young Indian woman who faces the choice of giving up freedoms she became used to the United States and submitting to the marriage arranged by her family or being banished from her family. SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-374-195625.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52246More details Price: $35.00 -
SILK AND STEEL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, )1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in India two hundred years ago at a time when the traditional Mogul rulers were beginning to give way to the British empire-builders. Muslims and Sikhs warred among themselves, adventurers fought for whoever would pay them - and they all fought the British. The author was born and raised in India and was living there at the time this book was published. Glossary. 327 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Brian Knight. ISBN: 0-374264112.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 73135More details Price: $18.50 -
THE HINDU WEDDING PLANNER: A Complete Guide to Planning and Performing the Engagement and Wedding Ceremonies.
Edition: First printing, a large paperback.
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Sacred Books Inc., 1999. First edition - The Angirasa Guide to planning a Hindu wedding; English and Hindi Edition - Includes prayers in English and Hindi, with some transliteration into the Roman alphabet. Large format, spiral-bound. 110 pp. ISBN: 1-893152103.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85053More details Price: $28.50 -
CAST ME OUT IF YOU WILL: Stories and Memoir.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90641More details Price: $24.50 -
PRIZE STORIES 1996: The O. Henry Awards.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books, (1996.). SIGNED - In addition to the prizewinners - with Stephen King winning first prize for 'The Man in the Black Suit' , this also includes stories by Akhil Sharma, William Hoffman, Joyce Carol Oates, T. J. McNally, Daniel Menaker, Alice Adams, Jane Smiley, Walter Mosley and more. SIGNED by Akhil Sharma at "If You Sing Like That for Me" (his first publiched story) Introduction by Abrahams. Biographical notes and comments by the authors. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481829.
Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 54796More details Price: $21.50 -
PRIZE STORIES 1996: The O. Henry Awards.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Anchor Books, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - In addition to the prizewinners - with Stephen King winning first prize for 'The Man in the Black Suit' , this also includes stories by Akhil Sharma, William Hoffman, Joyce Carol Oates, T. J. McNally, Alice Adams, Jane Smiley, and more. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Sharma at "If You Sing Like That for Me" (his first publiched story) and Mosley at "The Thief." Introduction by Abrahams. Biographical notes and comments by the authors. 387 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481829.
Condition: Near fine in glossy wrappers (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 43292More details Price: $28.50 -
THE CONQUEST OF FAMINE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at major famines over the years - in China, India, Ireland, and Russia - and of attempts to prevent them, including the Indian Famine Code of 1887 and more recently the role of the United Nations - but even as it acknowledges the activities of the rulers of India in pre-colonial days to ameliorate conditions when drought caused a shortage of food, it downplays the role of British colonialism in ignoring the plight of the people and in putting in place policies that caused massive death tolls. Photographs, references, index. vii, 216 pp. ISBN: 0-701120479.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64714More details Price: $17.50 -
THE HERO'S WALK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Chapel Hill, NC: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (2001). First edition - Second novel by this award-winning writer who was born in India, now lives and writes in Canada. "In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy." 359 pp. ISBN: 1-565123123.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (lower corner of front cover clipped).
Book ID: 82859More details Price: $18.00 -
THE HERO'S WALK.
Edition: First US printing.
Chapel Hill, NC: Allan Swallow, Publisher, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this award-winning writer who was born in India, now lives and writes in Canada. "In a small town by the Bay of Bengal in India, Sripathi Rao, a headstrong man and disenchanted copywriter, lives in his crumbling ancestral home, uncomfortably aware of the encroaching modern world. Then, early one morning, Sripathi is awakened by a call from Canada: his long-estranged daughter and her husband have been killed in a car accident. Their surviving seven-year-old child, Nandana, is about to become his reluctant ward. Yet Nandana has never met her grandfather, has never been to India, and hasn't spoken a word since the tragedy." SIGNED on the title page. 359 pp. ISBN: 1-565123123.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82858More details Price: $30.00 -
BUNKER 13.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs, sex, and corruption in the Indian Army Our hero, known as MM, is a pleasure-seeking journalist working for an upstart Indian newsweekly." The first novel by this investigative journalist. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-374-117306.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60659More details Price: $35.00 -
BUNKER 13.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003). First edition - "A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs, sex, and corruption in the Indian Army Our hero, known as MM, is a pleasure-seeking journalist working for an upstart Indian newsweekly." The first novel by this investigative journalist. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-374-117306.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60660More details Price: $18.00 -
WHAT THE BODY REMEMBERS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this author who was born in Canada but grew up in India. Opening in 1937 in India, it is set "against the backdrop of changing Anglo-Indian relations; sometimes the political bleeds into the personal, as the novel juxtaposes India's struggle for independence with the smaller outrages and betrayals Satya and Roop suffer at their husband's hands--and each other's." (Sheila Bright) Winner of the Commonwealth Writers regional prize (Caribbean and Canada) for Best Book and long listed for the Orange Prize. Map frontispiece. 471 pp. ISBN: 0-385496044.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88551More details Price: $18.50 -
HISTOIRE DU PETIT NEGRE SAMBO (LITTLE BLACK SAMBO.)
Edition: First printing of this translation.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. Hardcover first edition - An appealing small volume, measuring just 5 5/8 i by 4 1/8 inches with the orginal illustrations of this classic and rather controversial children's story. Preface from the translator describing this as the story that Bannerman's daughters much preferred of all the stories she made up. Translated by Madeleine Bleriot Johnson.
Condition: Very good- in red cloth with a pasted on illustration on the front cover. A little spotting to the front cover, a few pages are somewhat loose, but still attached. A nice copy of an uncommon book.
Book ID: 22023More details Price: $100.00 -
THUNDERBOLT AT CATFISH BEND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Wieser & Wieser, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - After a catastrophic event in the normally quiet Mississippi community, the Catfish Bend animals visit the outback of Australia and the jungles of India. Illustrations adapted from sketches by Alice Caddy. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-914373-005.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Review copy with promotional material laid in.
Book ID: 58555More details Price: $18.00 -
THUNDERBOLT AT CATFISH BEND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Wieser & Wieser, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - After a catastrophic event in the normally quiet Mississippi community, the Catfish Bend animals visit the outback of Australia and the jungles of India. Illustrations adapted from sketches by Alice Caddy. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-914373-005.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder dot, some foxing to top edge of textblock, one short closed tear to dj)
Book ID: 78888More details Price: $13.50 -
THE STRANGLER VINE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Putnam, (2015) dj. Hardcover - The author's first novel (preceded by two works of nonfiction published as Miranda Carter) Set in colonial India in 1837, this introduces Blake and Avery, an unlikely investigative pair - "William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery." Historical note and afterward, Glossary, map endpapers. 369 pp. ISBN: 978-0399171673.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 74669More details Price: $15.00 -
PASHMINA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 71534More details Price: $40.00 -
PASHMINA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 71533More details Price: $35.00 -
MANJHI MOVES A MOUNTAIN.
Edition: First printing.
Creston Books, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on the the true story of Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and spent twenty-two years, from 1960 to 1982, to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village in India from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. Illustrated in full color by Danny Popovici. SIGNED on the title page by the author with the words "May you move mountains!" Large format. ISBN: 978-1939547347.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards (as new).
Book ID: 73957More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DAMASCENED BLADE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third Joe Sandilands novel set in 1922, where Joe, on secondment from Scotland Yard, is spending a fortnight's leave with an old army friend, commander of the frontline fort at Gor Khatri, where an uneasy truce has been holding with the Afghans to the North. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 287 pp. ISBN: 1-841196762.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75395More details Price: $30.00 -
RAGTIME IN SIMLA.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Carroll & Graf, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second in the Joe Sandilands series set in India during the 1920s. On the way up to the Himalayan hills to Simla, the summer capital of the British Raj, Commander Sandilands' traveling companion, a Russian opera singer, is killed by a single shot. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-7867-12465.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53842More details Price: $18.00 -
THE PLACE TIGER.
Edition: First printing.
London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth Joe Sandilands novel set in 1922, where a tiger turned man-eater is terrorizing the northern villages of Ranipur. SIGNED by the author on the title page. 304 pp. ISBN: 1-841198129.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75396More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: SOHO Press, (2011.). The author's first novel, and the first in the Joe Sandilands series set in India during the 1920s. 276 pp. plus an except from 'The Blood Royal.'. ISBN: 0-7867-12465.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 87593More details Price: $15.00 -
RAGTIME IN SIMLA.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Gladestry, UK: Scorpion Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery set in 1919 colonial India. Numbered 40 out of 80, and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Includes an essay of appreciation by H. F. R. Keating. Bound in marbled boards and half leather, gilt lettering on spine. 370 pp. ISBN: 1-87356757X.
Condition: Fine in fine original mylar dust jacket.
Book ID: 71194More details Price: $100.00 -
THE FLYING TURK.
Edition: First edition.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., n.d. [1939]. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon juvenile adventure story by this prolific mystery writer. Glossy frontispiece and one inserted plate. 250 pp.
Condition: Good overall in red boards (sunning to the spine, some overall wear to the edges, toning to the paper and some scattered foxing.)
Book ID: 59420More details Price: $25.00